English to Afrikaans Meaning :: doyen

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Noun(1) a man who is the senior member of a group

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(1) Then a doyen of the field turned up with a costume, wand and scent.(2) he became the doyen of British physicists(3) He remains the doyen of popular historians and biographers and in his latest title he has lost none of his ability to bring the past vividly to life for the general reader.(4) He is a doyen of Middle East specialists in the western press elite.(5) Above all, his writings and his leadership made him the undoubted doyen of British railway historians.(6) At 59, he is the doyen of UK experts on healthcare law and ethics.(7) The respected man was ├ö├ç├┐the doyen of football commentators├ö├ç├û.(8) For the doyen of older press historians, older newspapers were like boroughs: rotten.(9) We had lectures from the doyen of Canadian economic historians.(10) He is supposed to be the doyen of political commentators.(11) The doyen of professional safari guides, he began his career in the bush as a teenage cadet ranger with Zimbabwe's National Parks Service.(12) ├ö├ç├┐He created catches out of thin air, like some Indian magician,├ö├ç├û said the doyen among the commentators.(13) He is the doyen of UK microbiologists and virologists.(14) the doyen of Canadian poetry(15) In their place let me suggest those doyens of classical economics Adam Smith and von Mises.(16) This May will see the seventh edition of the music festival, once again bringing doyens of the field to the Capital.

Synonyms

Noun

1. dean ::

dekaan

Antonyms

1. colt ::

colt

2. neophyte ::

lidmaat van die gemeente

3. novice ::

beginner

4. recruit ::

werf

5. rookie ::

nuweling

6. tyro ::

nieuweling

Different Forms

doyen, doyens

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